As we already announced Renault Design proposed to all 4 interns a permanent designer job offer, we will see very soon who will accept the offer.

A Team Effort

However, today I would like to talk about the Renault Design support team from France and from India because it is clear that the Design Academy has been a success thanks to all the people that gave a part of their know-how to the 4 interns during those seven months.

The scale models were realized in our local model shop managed by Marc Bentivoglio and his team, to accomplish all model making we also had the support from General Manager Mr Philippe Ponceau’s managers Frederique Cheze and Lionel Petit and Arul. Not to forget Alain Lonay’s advices and tips (India Design Director).

From France Luciano Bove had a team of 10 professional selected designers to be the trainers travelling with him to India, every trainer made 2 trips respecting a given schedule and they were: Anton, Jean-Philippe, Moneet, Eduardo, Marco, Emmanuel, Jennifer, Julie and Riccardo.

Luciano Bove travelled every month to India to follow up the special internship supervising content & quality and naturally sharing a part of his know-how to the 4 interns. It was not just about sketching and ideation or illustration, it was about presenting your work, giving value to your project, using the right storytelling, learning how to work with an Alias modeler, how to interact with colleagues to manage the daily activities, how to be in control of your project to produce the requested quality.

Special thanks to the HR Dpt in Renault India for their support.

In France we cannot forget Paul Stamper the anchor at LIVENEWS videos on the official Facebook page, often Paul & Luciano had a 10 minutes Livenews from Renault Design Center telling about the Design Academy India development, sometimes they also had few trainers as guests with anecdotes and funny stories. However, stay tuned because the Facebook pageis alive and soon will have new content 😉

Special thanks to Laurens van den Acker for giving the OK to make this project, and thanks to Patrick Lecharpy for being the person that generated this project asking Luciano Bove to write down the scenario and to manage the organization and its realization.

At the end you understand it has been a Team work, a big project opened to the public (first time from a design studio) via Facebook with photos, news, videos, episodes…more than 4300 followers and more than 10000 views for the last Episode #8 (click to watch).

What is next?

This is a great question which cannot have an answer today.

I can advice all of you to stay tuned and concentrated on the official Facebook Page because there are some excellent news soon to come with new photos and videos 😉 it is not over yet …. so just stay tuned!

The Renault Design Academy India special Internship Program held in Chennai Design Studio (in India) is almost at its end.

On the 14th of November the four candidates will deliver their project presentation including their scale painted models, Luciano Bove (DAI Program Manager) & Patrick Lecharpy (Renault VP Advance Design & India Design Operations) will be in Chennai for the presentation and also to decide what to do after the Design Academy in Chennai design studio.

The Renault Design managers from France will announce the follow up of this special internship, we do not know yet how many will be hired as designers by Renault, we do not know if those projects will have an extra activity for the near future.

The only sure thing is that the Design Academy India will be present at the next Delhi Motor Show on the Renault India stand…and it might not be just this…

The Renault Design Academy India in Chennai, the special internship program created by Renault Design and managed by Luciano Bove, is almost at its end as the final presentation date is getting closer.
The 14th of November Mr Lecharpy, Head of Design Operations in India and Advance Design VP, will attend the presentation in Chennai Design Studio. We will probably know to who Renault Design India will propose a real designer job contract.

In this video we can see that the four candidates’ models are almost finished, however they are hiding a big surprise…something that will probably be announced the day of presentation.

The Renault Design Academy India special internship program in Chennai Design studio is moving on with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. The four interns are working hard and ready to transform their design proposals into digital models before milling the scale models for the final October presentation.

Last 29th of June, Renault Group VP Design Lauren van den Acker visited the Renault Chennai Design studio and attended the Design Academy India presentation giving a lot of feedback to the interns.

His visit, his comments & interest in the overall project, gave an extra positive boost to the activity and mainly to the four interns very happy to present to him and meet him in person.

Since 3 months, the 4 Renault Design Academy India Internship program interns, in Chennai India, keep on working hard to achieve their objective: get hired by Renault at the end of this adventure.

For those that do not know yet, Renault recently opened the Design Academy India special internship program in its new Design studio in Chennai India. Objective of this initiative is to select some of the best talents from design schools and form them with a very close to reality working program, the 2 best at the end will be offered a real designer job contract.

From an idea of Patrick Lecharpy, and managed by Luciano Bove the Design Academy India counts on a trainers’ team of 12 professional Renault designers. Each week a trainer flies to Chennai to spend his/her week with the interns and supervise their project development.

Anybody can follow this incredible activity via Renault Design Academy India’s Facebook page on which you will see lots of photos and videos plus the weekly EPISODES sort of short videos of how they are moving on with this internship. Please LIKE the page if you check it!

So, where are we today with our interns?

Actually they are in the process of starting their Alias virtual models according to their chosen concept, at the end of this month Renault VP Design big boss Laurens van den Acker will be visiting the Design Academy and check their work in progress with Patrick Lecharpy, Luciano Bove, Alain Lonay, Philippe Ponceau.

In other words the program is moving to model making step and, before that, some strong feedbacks will be given to the interns by the top management. Smitesh, Gautam,Nhikil & Aditya (the 4 interns) will present their works to get precious advices and move on with their projects according to the planning.

The final Design Academy presentation is expected for the 18th of October.